Whiti Hereaka
@whitihereaka.co.nz
Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui, Pākehā. Kaituhi Māori. Author of “Kurangaituku”.
Writer of things. Popular emotional cheese dish.
She/her/ia.
www.whitihereaka.co.nz
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Writer of things. Popular emotional cheese dish.
She/her/ia.
www.whitihereaka.co.nz
Profile photo by Tabitha Arthur
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Whiti Hereaka
@whitihereaka.co.nz
· Apr 11
You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin - Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
An imaginative collaboration between writer and artist that pairs 'classical mathematical theory with te ao Māori'.
www.nzreviewofbooks.com
“Having unfurled to show you its glory You Are Here contracts and curls up on itself again. Back at the beginning. Expanding and contracting. Breathing in and breathing out.”
www.nzreviewofbooks.com/you-are-here...
www.nzreviewofbooks.com/you-are-here...
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Hey everyone, do you know which kiwi creative has an award winning book of creepy short stories that you could buy for your friends this Christmas?
*points at self*
*points at self*
To add to the below - what are these, tweets? Postings? I don't fucking know - I am about to start soon looking for Christmas stuff starting with @pepperraccoon.com @birdandbeach.bsky.social @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social and anyone else I have purchased from. I encourage you to do the same.
Frankly, this year I am just going to order all my Christmas presents to friends and family online from NZ creatives and craftspeople and get them to post to me. I'll pay the postage, I don't care. Because I can't be fucked wandering round the shops looking at stuff I don't want to buy.
September 18, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Hey everyone, do you know which kiwi creative has an award winning book of creepy short stories that you could buy for your friends this Christmas?
*points at self*
*points at self*
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This post has the same effect as Tom Holland's Lip Sync Battle vid.
If you see this absolute legend of a gif, you repost it.
If you see this absolute legend of a gif, you repost it.
September 18, 2026 at 5:54 AM
This post has the same effect as Tom Holland's Lip Sync Battle vid.
If you see this absolute legend of a gif, you repost it.
If you see this absolute legend of a gif, you repost it.
There were seven — SEVEN — tūī in my kōwhai tree!
September 18, 2026 at 2:47 AM
There were seven — SEVEN — tūī in my kōwhai tree!
Yesterday I learned that you can favourite kupu in Te Aka and once you have more than five it will generate a quiz on those words!
September 18, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Yesterday I learned that you can favourite kupu in Te Aka and once you have more than five it will generate a quiz on those words!
While I was looking up the programme info for the reading I’m giving in Hamburg on 18 Oct, I came across my profile on the “Notable People Project”. Rest assured that before I let the kind words turn me into a skite that I have donned my hair-shirt and administered my lashings.
September 17, 2026 at 11:49 PM
While I was looking up the programme info for the reading I’m giving in Hamburg on 18 Oct, I came across my profile on the “Notable People Project”. Rest assured that before I let the kind words turn me into a skite that I have donned my hair-shirt and administered my lashings.
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Deborah Russell knitting during QT got more critical coverage than Paul Henry calling the Greens subhuman and Christopher Luxon's "cry me a river" combined. #nzpol
September 17, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Deborah Russell knitting during QT got more critical coverage than Paul Henry calling the Greens subhuman and Christopher Luxon's "cry me a river" combined. #nzpol
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'Bladerunner 2049' (2017)
dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️
dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️
September 17, 2026 at 1:50 PM
'Bladerunner 2049' (2017)
dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️
dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️
I spent much of today trying to sleep off an impending migraine, but in the midst of the pain I wrote a couple of hundred words of a new project that I wasn’t planning on working on until a couple of years down the track but I might need to bump it up because the Voice is clear and strong.
September 17, 2026 at 6:10 AM
I spent much of today trying to sleep off an impending migraine, but in the midst of the pain I wrote a couple of hundred words of a new project that I wasn’t planning on working on until a couple of years down the track but I might need to bump it up because the Voice is clear and strong.
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So that Green supermarket policy must have gone down very well with certain focus groups huh
September 16, 2026 at 12:45 AM
So that Green supermarket policy must have gone down very well with certain focus groups huh
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Pro tip to any other political parties - you too can grow a spine at any point in time and choose to do something about the very real issues facing our country. It can be actually quite popular too.
September 16, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Pro tip to any other political parties - you too can grow a spine at any point in time and choose to do something about the very real issues facing our country. It can be actually quite popular too.
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Tauranga's retirement home for burglars
September 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Tauranga's retirement home for burglars
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Make not opposing genocide hurt more than Israel works to make opposing genocide hurt. Make it hurt politicians' odds. Make it hurt artists' sales. Make it hurt medias' reputation. Make it hate platforms' revenues. Make it career-endingly devastating to stand there and "both sides" mass murder.
September 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Make not opposing genocide hurt more than Israel works to make opposing genocide hurt. Make it hurt politicians' odds. Make it hurt artists' sales. Make it hurt medias' reputation. Make it hate platforms' revenues. Make it career-endingly devastating to stand there and "both sides" mass murder.
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You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 15, 2026 at 12:04 PM
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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“And I think it's even worse for the Phillips kids' mother because she's Māori... a Māori woman trying to get the police and Oranga Tamariki to take her Pākehā ex-husband's threat to their children seriously.” #misogny #racism #nzpol
Pieces still missing from Tom Phillips inquiry - academic
An expert on family violence says it is indefensible Family Court proceedings were excluded from the government's inquiry into the Tom Phillips case.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 15, 2026 at 7:43 PM
I’m up at dawn for a meeting and reminiscing about doing this EVERY day when I was writing my first novel (I lived near the zoo and would write until the gibbons and lions woke and yelled) Part of me wants that hunger — to get up and put hours into my novel before getting ready for my day job — back
September 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I’m up at dawn for a meeting and reminiscing about doing this EVERY day when I was writing my first novel (I lived near the zoo and would write until the gibbons and lions woke and yelled) Part of me wants that hunger — to get up and put hours into my novel before getting ready for my day job — back
While I was at the book launch tonight, one of the booksellers told me that Unity Books (and The Women’s Bookshop) have ordered “He Heru” so there will be copies in NZ probably by the time I get back from launching it in Berlin. I’m a bit chuffed about that.
September 15, 2026 at 10:43 AM
While I was at the book launch tonight, one of the booksellers told me that Unity Books (and The Women’s Bookshop) have ordered “He Heru” so there will be copies in NZ probably by the time I get back from launching it in Berlin. I’m a bit chuffed about that.
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PAUL: What’s in the box?
REVEREND MOTHER: Pain.
[PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.]
REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
REVEREND MOTHER: Pain.
[PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.]
REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
September 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
PAUL: What’s in the box?
REVEREND MOTHER: Pain.
[PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.]
REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
REVEREND MOTHER: Pain.
[PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.]
REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
I got home from à book launch and there was a dog loose on the path to my house and it started to square off at me so I walked around the block to get into my house from the back gate. It could be the neighbour’s dog — that dog is SUPER aggressive behind the fence when the owner is around.
September 15, 2026 at 9:14 AM
I got home from à book launch and there was a dog loose on the path to my house and it started to square off at me so I walked around the block to get into my house from the back gate. It could be the neighbour’s dog — that dog is SUPER aggressive behind the fence when the owner is around.
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52,000 signature Ngāti Kahungunu do not undermine Te Tiriti o Waitangi petition sucessfully delivered.
September 15, 2026 at 8:51 AM
52,000 signature Ngāti Kahungunu do not undermine Te Tiriti o Waitangi petition sucessfully delivered.
I’m wearing my new docs at work and my colleague @gwynebs.bsky.social suggested I get hiker’s wool to help prevent blisters and my office is so full of random things that I already have à (small) box of uncarded wool fleece that will do the job nicely.
September 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I’m wearing my new docs at work and my colleague @gwynebs.bsky.social suggested I get hiker’s wool to help prevent blisters and my office is so full of random things that I already have à (small) box of uncarded wool fleece that will do the job nicely.
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We are going to make 40,000 by 11:59pm tonight when petition for govt to stop removing the Treaty of Waitangi from NZ legislation closes.
Spread it around and sign please.
#kikorangi
Spread it around and sign please.
#kikorangi
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
petitions.parliament.nz
September 13, 2026 at 7:23 AM
We are going to make 40,000 by 11:59pm tonight when petition for govt to stop removing the Treaty of Waitangi from NZ legislation closes.
Spread it around and sign please.
#kikorangi
Spread it around and sign please.
#kikorangi
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September 9, 2026 at 11:46 PM
This morning I had around 300 open tabs on my phone 😳 but now I have 15. I made a list of all the books I want to read, the sewing patterns I want to make, the knitting patterns, the articles for research. Still open: waiata I want to learn, and a few things I want to buy — but I’ve run out of puff
September 10, 2026 at 4:40 AM
This morning I had around 300 open tabs on my phone 😳 but now I have 15. I made a list of all the books I want to read, the sewing patterns I want to make, the knitting patterns, the articles for research. Still open: waiata I want to learn, and a few things I want to buy — but I’ve run out of puff
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Look what showed up today! I read Terri's Māori scifi thriller at an early draft stage and it was the BEST early draft I have ever read. I was super jealous tbh 😅😭 And here it is, and it's glorious. The cover! The concept! I weep anew with mingled delight and envy. Launching soon!
#booksky
#booksky
September 9, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Look what showed up today! I read Terri's Māori scifi thriller at an early draft stage and it was the BEST early draft I have ever read. I was super jealous tbh 😅😭 And here it is, and it's glorious. The cover! The concept! I weep anew with mingled delight and envy. Launching soon!
#booksky
#booksky